Mask Art
Darby Arens
Rob Duncan:

Darby Arens has produced some very clever and lovely pieces of art using what we've all been using for the past few years – The beautiful blue medical mask. There's something soothing about this particular blue color that we all associate with a crazy few years. Great collage black and white compositions simply transform the mask into very striking pieces of Art. You can purchase prints on her website here for $30. I'd love a set of these to frame in the office so am ordering mine now. They will definitely raise a smile from clients who can now visit our office, in person, without having to wear a mask.

Transitions
Noma Bar
Lyam Bewry:

London-based illustrator and graphic designer Noma Bar has turned his wit onto the unsuspecting children's toy, reimagining his daughters' old cuddly characters from their reverse side. Read more about the project on Creative Boom.

EAST Films
Rice Studios
Mike Reed:

One of those chef's-kiss logo ideas that requires no explanation. And a sharp, simple identity system built around it. Classic.

Eager
Ragged Edge
Rob Duncan:

Say it how it is. This is exactly what I would want the juice, in fact everything in my refrigerator to look like. Solid color and beautiful typography. Ragged Edge built an extremely ordinary packaging system for extremely ordinary juice. Without saying anything it exudes freshness and taste. Brilliant idea, beautifully crafted.

Home Street Home
Brian Singer
Lyam Bewry:

An ongoing series by Brian Singer aka Someguy aimed at raising awareness of the rising number of unhoused people in San Francisco.

The local artist uses hand-painted sleeping bags on street railings as a means of spreading the message. The installations are temporary, and the sleeping bags are intended to be taken by anyone that needs one.

To Have & To Hold
Sumner Works
Lyam Bewry:

To Have & To Hold is an edition documenting paper bag ephemera from a bygone era. Collected and designed by Tim Sumner of Sumner-Works, issue one takes a deep dive into bookshops with promise of many more subjects to come.

The publication itself comes wrapped in paper bag, with classic price labels used to hand number each copy. For more information see here.

Picnic Coffee
Supple Studio
Rob Duncan:

I love a clever word mark almost as much as I love Bath. Supple Studio have created a charming identity for a coffee shop in Bath, UK. Their mission is to make good coffee accessible to everyone – specialty coffee without the pomp. Clever solutions such as these definitely appeal to the mass consumer. They make you smile and create an immediate emotional connection with the public. Using the illustrations to highlight the hidden cups creates a playful and extremely accessible visual language. Perfect work Jamie and team.

The Exquisite Gucci Campaign
Rob Duncan:

Being a Stanley Kubrick fan since being forced to watch A Clockwork Orange during my Art School days, this new campaign for Gucci really stood out this week. Alessandro Michele’s campaign, meticulously recreates scenes from 2001: A Space Odyssey, A ClockworkOrange, Barry Lyndon, The Shining and Eyes Wide shut. This must have taken a lot of time and a lot of money to recreate so exactly — beautiful work.

Logo R.I.P.
The Stone Twins
Lyam Bewry:

Logo R.I.P is a self-initiated project by The Stone Twins, commemorating iconic logos that have been lost at the turn of the 21st century.

It features international design classics such as AT&T (Saul Bass), British Steel (David Gentleman), NASA (Danne & Blackburn) and PanAm (Chermayeff & Geismar).